Street Advertising The Flexible Way

Chicago-based brand marketing studio Alt Terrain is specialised is new collaborative marketing campaigns. They have designed a live mobile billboard to bring outdoor advertising to life.

The Live Mobile Billboard is a clear glass box truck vehicle that brings an interactive and 3D advertising campaign to the busy streets of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and Atlanta.

To show that “the city that never sleeps” also has its private, quiet and relaxed moments, the Brooklyn-based collective Dawn of Man came up with the idea to project videos of sleeping New Yorkers on the walls of buildings.

Earlier we wrote about this new form of graffiti. Aakash Nihalani seems still busy creating the most brilliant street art without polluting the environment. He uses fluorescent tape to make optical illusion shapes on walls, windows, streets, and cars. With these new art pieces the artist suggest possible transformations in the city without changing the existing…

LimeWire founder Mark Gorton has recently announced to launch an application for open source urbanism, inspired by the peer-to-peer principle. Gorton’s goal is to stimulate “crowdsourced development, freely-accessible data libraries, and web forums, as well as actual open source software with which city planners can map transportation designs to people’s needs”, aiming to open up…

Helsinkian Tio Tikka is only 21 years old. Yet, he has already been the brains behind some great food concepts in the Finnish capital. At the age of 19 he popped up in downtown Helsinki’s public space with a Citroën Camionette truck that he had turned into a 24/7 crêperie/coffee bar on wheels. His struggle with the local authorities over street-selling permits paved the way for a (very) humble street food culture in Helsinki. We had a chat with Tio during our Helsinki visit, in his new restaurant/club Suola that he opened three weeks ago.